The Vampire Thing Always Works For Some

You Have To Put Yourself In A Situation, A Lifestyle, That Makes You Do The Work. Even If It's A Monastery.

You Don't Make Pictures For Oscars.

Young Film Makers Should Learn How To Deal With The Money And Learn How To Deal With The Power Structure. Because It Is Like A Battle.

I Certainly Wasn't Able To Get It When I Was A Kid Growing Up On The Lower East Side; It Was Very Hard At That Time For Me To Balance What I Really Believed Was The Right Way To Live With The Violence I Saw All Around Me - I Saw Too Much Of It Among The People I Knew.

The Five Points Was The Toughest Street Corner In The World. That's How It Was Known. In Fact, Charles Dickens Visited It In The 1850s And He Said It Was Worse Than Anything He'd Seen In The East End Of London.